Really happy to have written in support of James Kearns new book from the brilliant Bad Betty press - On the Subject of Things https://badbettypress.com/product/on-the-subject-of-fallen-things-james-kearns/

"Whatever we are, we are a thing. And the thing about things is that they need not language to be. But if language is going to, then the things change, and then poetry should be the way. Nowadays it rarely is. But here, with James Kearns, there is a book that might do that work, existential. This a really brilliant sequence of poems. Like Ponge, or Herbert, or Steger, or Simic, it manages to be both serious and fleeting, weighty and funny. It's hopeful, actually."

I had the pleasure to work with James over a long period of time not too long ago, being a minor sounding board to some of his recent works and it’s so satisfying to see a poet of such serious complexity, whose poems are so distinct, and enjoyable for that fact, get a book out like this.